CORONAVIRUS — SOCIAL HOUSING ECONOMIC RECOVERY
PACKAGE
651. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Housing:
I have a supplementary question. Can
the minister give the house an understanding of when the hundreds of millions
of dollars still unspent will finally be delivered?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER: Members! I am
getting a little tired of everyone giving commentary on supplementary
questions. If questions are not in order, I will
point that out to the member. We do not require commentary every time a member
of the opposition asks a supplementary question.
Mr J.N.
CAREY replied:
It is very clear that opposition
members are given written questions by their underlings. They do not read them,
sometimes they do not understand them, and then they just read them out. That
is what the member has just done. I just
listed, in detail, the rollout of the program, and then the member asks that
question of me. It makes no sense —
Ms M.J. Davies: When?
Mr
J.N. CAREY: Right now, Leader of
the Opposition. I know the Leader of the Opposition is not listening. I know
she is not attentive. I just detailed it. I could go through it again for the
Leader of the Opposition if she wishes. I made
it very clear that we are rolling out the program. I am repeatedly talking in
this house about the reforms I am making. The member likes to quote
Shelter WA, but its commentary about this is very clear. It has said —
� we're
really pleased that the new minister (WA Housing Minister John Carey) has got
his eye attuned to this problem, and is really focusing hard with the
department to get delivery done and housing out the door.''
We are making
extraordinary investments in public housing—an $875 million injection.
It is $2.1 billion. There are more than 600 homes under construction
right now, including using modular and timber. You need to write your own
questions, sir, because at the moment it is very clear that you are not well
researched at all.